Google announced a range of significant tech advances at their annual I/O developer conference this week. And while these new developments are still in their early stages, they could have major of implications – both for user discovery and consumption habits, and consequently, for digital marketers as well. [Source: Social Media Today]

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has ordered one of the biggest management shakeups in the history of the social network, giving more responsibility to his chief product officer and launching a blockchain division. [Source: ET Brand Equity]

Google has told media buyers who use its data transfer service that they will no longer be able to use a DoubleClick ID. Google has told its partners that beginning May 25, DoubleClick will no longer populate the encrypted UserID field that stores the DoubleClick cookie ID and mobile device IDs in DCM and DoubleClick Bid Manager (DBM) logs for impressions, clicks and site activities associated with users in the EU. [Source: MARTECH TODAY]

Despite all the worries about ad fraud, ad blocking and other ailments of the internet, the growth of online advertising seems to show no signs of slowing down. According to a new report by PwC, digital advertising revenues continued to climb in 2017, rising 21 percent to $88 billion in the U.S. [Source: Adweek]

Instagram’s rolling out a much-needed update to their messaging platform, which will help businesses make better use of the app. Now you’ll see important new customer messages in your main Direct inbox, instead of in the pending folder. You can also star and filter your conversations to come back to messages you want to follow up on. [Source: Social Media Today]

The development team at Google AdWords seems to be coming up with new and exciting updates for its beta version of responsive test ads. In the most recent update, advertisers are now allowed to provide more than one headline for an ad. [Source: Logicserve Digital]

WhatsApp has added support for playing Instagram and Facebook videos within the app. Now when contacts send you Facebook and Instagram videos, you can watch them inside WhatsApp without having to exit your conversation thread and go into other apps. [Source: The Verge]

Google’s AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) team has announced a new component that enables users of the mobile-optimized framework to target content to site visitors based on their locations. This new “amp-geo” component allows content to be served dynamically based on the visitor’s country, inferred from the IP address. [Source: Search Engine Land]

Twitter’s reportedly working on two new features which could broaden your interactive options in the app. The first is encrypted DMs and the other messaging option Twitter is working on is the ability to add GIFs to your quote tweets. [Source: Social Media Today]

Facebook is continuing to give Pages more video features. After announcing new video metrics last week, the platform is now making it possible to cross-post Live video broadcasts across multiple pages. [Source: Marketing Land]